Just slap a Lexus/Toyota drive train, frame and ergonomic layout into some areo'd up sixtysesque bodys and youll be golden... post date this entry to y. 2030 and sub in eightysesque.

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

In a word....

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2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox"

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Great flick...

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Current Benzes

1989 300TE "Alice"
1990 300CE "Sam Spade"
1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007)
1998 E320 "Orson"
2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox"

Res non semper sunt quae esse videntur

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Not in this weather!

I'd go for a modern drive train and accoutrements in a 1930's or 40's frame.

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-livin' in the terminally flippant zone

You can then get a kit car.

Part of the fun in driving an old car is its...well, funkiness.

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Current Benzes

1989 300TE "Alice"
1990 300CE "Sam Spade"
1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007)
1998 E320 "Orson"
2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox"

Res non semper sunt quae esse videntur

My Gallery

Not in this weather!

yea, I know there are kit cars for MB. There's a nice looking 1929 here in town. I just can't bring myself to even consider it since they are on ford chassis and have chevy engines and all that.

Maybe if I got one and put it on a 123 chassis with a 5 cylinder diesel, hmmmmm.....

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-livin' in the terminally flippant zone

I'm not in the target age group (I'm 28), but I have a few observations:

1. The '72 Newport was not the last good Chrysler. My first car was a '73 Newport and that thing was sweet.

2. I work with some guys who are in the target age group. One has an older Ford Bronco that he bought for $500 as a daily driver. He also just spent large money on a Harley-Davidson. Another has a '95 Dodge Cummins as a daily driver, but he and his wife recently spent large money on a Duramax to tow their RV with. Yet another has 18 '70's model GMC and Chevy pickups. He buys other stuff too, but only to derby them.

3. My mom is in the target age group. She doesn't drive much. Her previous car, a '90 Chevy Caprice police package, was stolen and never recovered. After taking some of my advice, she now has a 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis, and a handgun.

4. My dad is a little past the target age group. In his younger days, he owned a lot of interesting cars, including the 1953 MGTF he bought new, a Truimph Spitfire, a '50 Mercury convertible (yellow), and a '71 Ford Maverick Grabber. More recently, he actually looked at a Volvo, but ended up buying ANOTHER '89 Cadillac. His last four vehicle purchases have been Cadillacs, all of the 80-91 full-size body style. The last one before that was a '73 Chrysler Newport that he later gave to me as a first car.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.